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English civil war [suspended until castle map is complete]

PostPosted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 11:56 am
by Telvannia
First Map

Im making a english map and Im wandering who like it and if I should carry on making it

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/9696/map2ai5.jpg

I have not yet put the continent names on or added the names of the contries I was wandering what people though before I carried on

Second Map

I have added the continent names and added one more continent to make if more fun, made the map overall a bit bigger to be able to fit all the names without it looking squashed up

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/6460/map13ty6.jpg

Third Map

Please feel free to make a comment on how I could improve it

This is my first version for the civil war map
the way of showing the royalist land is only to show where it is not what the finished look will be
im not to sure about the names of the territories i have shortened most of the names so it could fit in.
I also added in wales to make the map a bit bigger

Image

PostPosted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:00 pm
by AndyDufresne
I'm not sure this idea will get a lot of backing, due to the popularity of the British Isles map, and the similarity between the two.


--Andy

PostPosted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:02 pm
by Telvannia
yeah that is what I was thinking it is very close to the british map

but I wanted to make a map and england is the place I know best so I thought it would be a good place to start by making a map of

PostPosted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:05 pm
by AndyDufresne
Perhaps if the this idea doesn't gain any momentum, consider a particular area or district or city in England...Perhaps that could be interesting, something you know, and still unique.


--Andy

PostPosted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:06 pm
by Telvannia
yeah that is a idea I had not thought of
I will think about that if as you say this map does not gain momentum

PostPosted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:30 pm
by hitandrun
I like the idea of a more accurate map of England, the one in the British map is a bit weird.
Are you going to make regions the continants and counties the countries?

PostPosted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:32 pm
by Telvannia
yes that is the general plan of it
the regions/continents and countries/counties are already colour coded on the map in the first post

PostPosted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 12:51 pm
by Telvannia
I have added the first update of the map (see first post)

PostPosted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 1:01 pm
by hitandrun
Telvannia wrote:I have added the first update of the map (see first post)


YAY..none of that "land's end" rubbish! :D

PostPosted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 1:26 pm
by Telvannia
I was going to call it cornwall to begin with then I found the proper name and it beats them all

PostPosted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 3:00 pm
by happysadfun
Oxford would make a great map with all the colleges and stuff.

PostPosted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 3:09 pm
by Telvannia
yeah I was thinking Cambridge having lived there half my life and therefore always prefered it to Oxford

PostPosted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 3:10 pm
by happysadfun
Whatever... I'm reading The Golden Compass, so oxford came to my mind.

EDIT: Or you englishpeople call it The Northern Lights.

PostPosted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 3:12 pm
by Telvannia
suppose you could do a mix like both oxford and cambridge in one map and you get a bnus for holding the whole of the city as well as smaller bonuses for just holding the universities

PostPosted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 3:16 pm
by happysadfun
"College Cities of England." That's good.

PostPosted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 3:17 pm
by Telvannia
it would be 'university towns' would you include durham in that?

PostPosted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 3:42 pm
by CHAMPOS
how about the english civil war - cavaliers vrs roundheads

PostPosted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 3:48 pm
by hitandrun
Telvannia wrote:yeah I was thinking Cambridge having lived there half my life and therefore always prefered it to Oxford


:D I have lived in Cambridge all my life. I would love to play CC on a map of my home town =D>

Re: English map

PostPosted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 4:01 pm
by hitandrun
Telvannia wrote:I was not sure where to put the London name so currently it is hovering in the middle of nowhere any suggestions?


You could you raise "East Anglia" a bit a stick "London" as close to Southend as possible. I think it would be clear enough.

PostPosted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 1:10 am
by Telvannia
where abouts in cambridge do you live?
and how old are you?
would be quite odd if we knew each other

PostPosted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 5:27 pm
by hitandrun
Yes it would be odd and a bit scary!
I live in Free-Romsey.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 7:16 am
by Pedronicus
The funniest map of England I ever saw was in the first ever Viz annual.

If you can get hold of it on ebay - that would give you a new idea to work with

PostPosted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 8:17 am
by Kayla
i counted and i only see 8 countries that arent a border, putting up mountains, rivers, etc. to eliminate some would be good, id play it

PostPosted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 3:56 am
by Telvannia
well that was only a first idea
but it seems the overall majority dont like this map so i think i will not continue this map and instead think of a new idea to do

PostPosted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 6:43 am
by Balsiefen
i prefer this one to the old one because it was so inacurate, i dont believe whoever made it is british, it is compleatly wrong hampshire is inland! cornwall is just a small bit on the end most of it being taken up by devon which in turn has half of it in somerset

this one is much more accurate